Sentences with phrase «in different habitats»

Moreover, the remains of animals living in different habitats can be artificially mixed by flowing water or by shifting lake and river margins.

This happened at least five times in different habitats.

This also means the birds presented different competition intensity in different habitat types and varying levels of competition to other seed eating species.

They will see the similarities and differences between plants in different habitats, collect specimens and study them in simple experiments.

Spawning, as well as larval and juvenile development, will often occur in different habitats, and little was known about what the impact of changes in those environments is having on fish development, according to Harvey Walsh, a fisheries biologist at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center at the Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island.

Exactly why bony fish managed to prevail in different habitats is the subject of debate: Do they have a better body plan, which is suited to more ecological niches than that of the cartilaginous fish?

By monitoring multiple seabird species that feed in different habitats, scientists can monitor changes in different parts of the ocean.

The international research team documented the occurrences in different habitats for approximately 10,000 plant species originating from Europe — from which more than 2,500 have naturalized on other continents.

Another factor feeding this fear is the beaver's ability to reproduce in different habitats, a skill that is surprising researchers.

It could be due to environmental change, or perhaps mammals had acquired a «critical mass» of «key innovations» — such as live birth, hot bloodedness, and fur — that enabled them to thrive in different habitats and diversify ecologically,» said Dr Close.

Nest site preferences in birds evolve over time based upon nest survival rates in different habitats, and may be confounded by the novel cues introduced by non-native plants,» adds Anna Chalfoun of the University of Wyoming, an expert on wildlife - habitat relationships.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.

High levels of fiber and toxins in leaves make gut microbial fermentative activity essential to howler nutrition, and based on studies with other mammals, it is possible that differences in gut microbial community composition allow groups of howlers in different habitats to take advantage of distinct resources to fuel the same activities.

Any mechanism hypothesized as causing fairy circles must account for their size, spacing, appearance, longevity and disappearance, as well as the variation in these attributes in different habitats.

Moths are a species - rich group of insects that occur in different habitats.

The authors indicate that further studies are needed to analyze a wide variety of alligators living in a different habitats, but since nesting birds and crocodilians co-occur in many tropical and subtropical wetlands, the results highlight a potentially widespread beneficial interaction between two ecologically important species groups.

A decade later, Richard Wrangham, working in both Gombe and the Kibale National Park in Uganda, showed that chimps can act much the same even when they live in different habitats and have different diets.

Kindergartners do dramatic play to understand how animals live in different habitats.

These larval forms usually live in different habitats, eat different foods, and assume a body form completely different from that of their parents.